The brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – March 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include a CHAIR of some sort. Your story must include the words ALBUM, BRIGHT, and CLICK. Your story must include a character who has to make a CHOICE between two things. *** Deal or No Deal I’ve been sitting by my
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – April 2023 short story competition was as follows: Your story must include something that CHANGES COLOUR. Your story must include the words ACCEPT, POINT, RIDDLE, INKLING and LABEL. APRIL FOCUS: Your story must have an ENGAGING OPENING SENTENCE – one that will make your reader want to read on. *** Cold Feet
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for January 2022 (which was their inaugural First Friday Fix) was writing a 50-word story on the theme of NEW BEGINNINGS. *** Day One Now is the time, Now is the day, Now or never, Now is right. Now is the New Year, Now is Day One, Now is
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for August 2022 was three creative writing exercises to write three scenes, focusing on showing not telling. Write a short scene about a sad man standing in the rain. You CANNOT use the words “sad” or “rain” – focus on showing this in other ways. (“Ruined Plans”) Same again,
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for November 2022 was writing the ending to three micro stories. The footsteps were getting louder now. And faster. Jade reached the corner and met a classic alley leading to a dead end. Would this be her dead end? New sneakers squeaked to a halt, breath playing catch up.
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – June 2022 short story competition was as follows: Your story must begin with a sentence containing exactly SIX words. Your story must include something being served. Your story must include the words STAGE, WIRE, and LOG. *** Rehearsal I hate running the school play. All the kids were together on stage, sitting
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for July 2022 was to write a 50-word story using three of the five following ingredients: a lettuce leaf, a rubber duck, a pair of roller skates, a garden gnome, and/or a banana. My story can be found below. *** How to Make Rubber Duck Salad To make rubber
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre’s (AWC) First Friday Fix for April 2022 was to write a 50-word story that takes place on an aeroplane and had to begin with dialogue. My story can be found below. *** Rough Landing “Are you a nervous flyer?” “Is it that obvious?” “Only because I used to be like that.” “You? You’re
Read moreThe brief of the AWC Furious Fiction – September 2022 short story competition was as follows: Your story’s first sentence must contain the word FIFTY. Your story must include a four-legged animal. Your story must include the words EMERGENCY, BRUSH, and BOARD. *** Left Behind For fifty days the bushfire raged on, burning away everything in its path. Once an
Read moreThe prompt for the Australian Writers’ Centre (AWC) First Friday Fix for May 2022 was to write the same scene using THREE different POV styles and that it should tell the story of a thief stealing cookies from a jar. This story is clearly longer than 50 words, however the prompt didn’t mention that it needed to be 50 words
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